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There was a classic runaway train Swiss cheese automation fueled derailment in CA. First, the dispatcher didn’t know what he was doing, fudged on car weights and maybe even sent the train without enough locomotives. The train had front and rear locomotives- not_electronically linked, but crews and r...

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Busted. You are not_a train perv. J mentioned dynamic brakes above- check out his YouTube link. Locomotives can “reverse” the traction motors and generate electricity which is burned in giant heater grids (with cooling fans) (In electric passenger rail this electricity is often dumped back into the ...

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From YouTubez and rail perving, it’s been my observation that dynamic brakes aren’t half bad at slowing a train. Conversely it’s one unit working to stop 30 to 40 cars or more so it can’t be THAT effective…you got 6 axles of braking vs 160 axles of momentum. 16:1, roughly.

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As Flyboy once told Evan, if you want to affect something, go into the industry. Proclamations on internet fora (especially train advice on an obscure aeroplanie forum) don’t do much.

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In any case, having a gazillion ton vehicle with a gazillion wheels and a gazillion brakes and have it slow down at 0.5 MPH per second at best is either stupid, or bad engineering, or there is something wrong with the condition of the brakes and people don't care. It is so ridiculous that it defeat...

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***Hard to say who would want to buy it. It isn't really near anything, other than a muddy bend in the Missouri River.***

Have you checked with the squid?

If you look at aerials, one of the buildings looks like an aeroplanie nose.

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…and it’s far from over.

I still prefer Trump, solely because Evan doesn’t.

(Sorry Snappyinski)

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See the other thread…

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Hard to say who would want to buy it. It isn't really near anything, other than a muddy bend in the Missouri River.

In fairness, isn't that true of all of St Louis?

It depends on the context.

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I think the wheels generally turn during emergency braking, making the brake-pad-wheel the weaker link, BUT wheel lock/rail slippage is not_unheard of. One other trivia (again, ass-hat outsider blathering). Because of the time it takes to “empty” the air line, the on-car brake valves can detect a su...

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Adding crap to the discussion. I was joking, as air pressure actually applies the brakes, but zero PSI in the line triggers braking valves to send pressure in tanks on the cars to the brakes. (Others have said this). I agree with J that there’s roughly 90 PSI available. If brakes are applied and rel...

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Quote = Evan

The cowgirl monkey pilot is NOT_maintaining a sterile cockpit below 10,000 feet.

We need more training, regulation and oversight.

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That battery switch ought to be a guarded switch…and big explody backup lithium batteries like on the weak-composite floppy, wingliner, that have their own guarded switches.

Yes, blue font is inferred.

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I read an opinion…this isn’t verbatim, but it was suggested that maybe the go-around was going well, resulting in the pilots not_addressing checking their power settings and maybe not_doing the “all-out” pull up, AND THEN THEY WERE SUDDENLY hit with what I will term an epic 191-ish downdraft and spe...

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3BS, some Spanish lesson for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dg7svKqxt8

No comprende.

That being said, Viva Cajeros Automaticos!

https://youtu.be/J7E0Bb-7xwU?si=cWmndghjJA6krMqP

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Teachers are our greatest influences in life, and one high school teacher left an impression on Ms. 3BS when they showed ESPN 30 for 30 fútbol documentary The Two Escobars in her geography class. This documentary not only inspired her to visit Colombia at some point, but also attend a Colombian soc...

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NO! No. No. No. NO! I definitely see a runway and terrain and horizon and traffic depections on a big display, or a window projection HUD… BUT WHY THE PHUGOID put goggles on the pilot that could fly off, come unplugged, lose Bluetooth, or any number of other malfunctions. Absolutely, give me one to...

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Sending 0 PSI to train brakes is not_as effective as sending thousands of PSI to 747 brakes.

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Cool story bro (and I mean that literally and not_in the snarky, dismissive discussion forum Context) We band people tend to have the SSB in a couple of different keys- it might be fun to give it a key. That being said (and you mathamotishins know this), it can be in any key, so if Chat ATC says “ye...

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But do you trust AI?

I trust that 99% of the time, AI will keep things at 25 degrees or less…

But, the 1% “what’s it doing now”…is disturbing…

It doesn’t really matter but squid programming, or maybe just the AI, on its own, decides it WANTS to did died us.

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I have minimal fear of steep banks if I’m doing them.

Fixed.

I do not_trust Bobby, ITS, flyboy or Otto.

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“I (3BS) have the procedure down.”

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